What books are you reading? - Beyond Tiki

M MrBaliHai Tiki Socialite Behind the Cheddar Curtain Joined: Jun 01, 2002 Posts: 1031	M MrBaliHai Posted posted on Wed, Apr 18, 2007 7:09 PM Personally, I liked Tim Powers' "The Anubis Gates" more than "On Stranger Tides", but I'm a sucker for Victorian time-travel novels that feature Jack the Ripper, werewolves, Freemasons, ancient Egyptian sorcerers, and armies of mutant clowns that roam the London sewers. I also just finished Dan Simmons' books "Ilium" and "Olympos", which explore the very bizarre premise of transhumans who pose as gods and use quantum teleportation to tunnel into an alternate universe where they force the Greeks and Trojans to recreate Homer's Iliad on a terraformed Mars. Despite having to resort to Pantheistic Solipsism and a literal Deux Ex Machina to end the story, it was a pretty gripping read.

Personally, I liked Tim Powers' "The Anubis Gates" more than "On Stranger Tides", but I'm a sucker for Victorian time-travel novels that feature Jack the Ripper, werewolves, Freemasons, ancient Egyptian sorcerers, and armies of mutant clowns that roam the London sewers.

I also just finished Dan Simmons' books "Ilium" and "Olympos", which explore the very bizarre premise of transhumans who pose as gods and use quantum teleportation to tunnel into an alternate universe where they force the Greeks and Trojans to recreate Homer's Iliad on a terraformed Mars. Despite having to resort to Pantheistic Solipsism and a literal Deux Ex Machina to end the story, it was a pretty gripping read.

Post #300257 by MrBaliHai on Wed, Apr 18, 2007 7:09 PM